India top country in WhatsApp video calling

With over 50 million video calling minutes per day, India has become the top country for video calling viaWhatsApp- a feature that was launched from India in November last year and rolled out globally to other countries. According to the data provided by the facebook owned popular mobile messaging app, a total of over 340 million video calling minutes are being recorded per day globally and users are making over 55 million video calls per day.

Whats App currently has 200 million monthly active users in India. In November last year, Whats App announced the rollout of the video calling feature, enabling more than 1.2 billion monthly active users globally to make video calls across Android, iPhone and Windows devices.

The global launch event was attended by Neeraj Arora, Head of Business,Whats App and Manpreet Singh, Product Lead, Whats App in New Delhi. “We are constantly working to improve Whats App and expanding the boundaries with focus on quality and we do not look at the competition,” Arora had told reporters. is available in more than 50 different languages around the world and in 10 Indian languages.